Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry comprised of three phrases.
Traditional haiku uses 17 syllables (5:7:5) but contemporary haiku in English often ignores this rule. A haiku is typically about nature, the earth and the natural world and are designed to be thought-provoking. These original haiku poems are by Anthony Rutledge and are mostly written in the contemporary free style format.
There are over 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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high moon
she opens the chocolates
his gift for a lie
high moon
turning the corner
an infirmed friend
high moon
a buttercup pushes out
from a ribcage
the high moon
and his whispers
loose in my hair
high moon
the yacht sailing nowhere
from our mantelpiece
high moon
the faces of sunflowers
turned in a breeze
high moon
Laurel on her pillow
cradled by light
high moon
reading her letter
my cigarette's glow
high moon
on the pollen sparkles
of an after-rain
high moon
the river gives tongue
to the mouth of the sea
high moon
the little town school
that father taught
high moon
my selfie
of both our faces
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